liaison

<p>ExcerptCustomizer plugin replaces the ellipsis (…) with a<br />
custom text string (length less than 50, including space)<br />
with selected padding (To replace space). The excerpt string<br />
is easily broken in many themes if the excerpt string contains<br />
space. Not compatible with all themes.</p>
<h3>Build Status</h3>
<h3>Development</h3>
<p><a href="https://github.com/liaisontw/excerptStuff" rel="nofollow ugc">ExcerptCustomizer</a></p>


Excerpt Customizer

ExcerptCustomizer plugin replaces the ellipsis (...) with a  custom text string with selected padding.  Not compatible with all themes.

BettyJJ

<h4>Main features of the plugin:</h4>
<ol>
<li>It supports multi-byte language (such as Chinese). It will not produce gibberish as some other excerpt plugins do.</li>
<li>The html tags in the original posts, i.e., the font styles, colors, hyperlinks, pictures and such are preserved in the excerpt.</li>
<li>For better readability, it displays 300 characters for each post on the homepage and 150 characters for each post on archive pages.</li>
</ol>


WP-UTF8-Excerpt

This plugin generates a better excerpt for multi-byte language users (Chinese, for example). Besides, it keeps the html tags in the excerpt.

Excerpt Customizer vs WP-UTF8-Excerpt